How do I use Git Extensions with a Bitbucket repository?

Question

I have repository on both github.com and bitbucket.org, and I am very familiar using Git Extensions for all repository functions... But when I started using bitbucket.org re

Answer 1

I found that most of this worked for me with just a few small changes.

1. Run GitExtensions\PuTTY\puttygen.exe
2. Click Generate
3. Click Save public key (as a text file)
4. Click Save private key (as a ppk file)
5. Didnt have to run this step --Run GitExtensions\PuTTY\pageant.exe C:\path\to\ppk-file.ppk--
6. Log into bitbucket
7. Go into Account settings
8. Paste your public key into the SSH keys text input as (spaces are important but with no email address on the end): ssh-rsa [AA-YOUR-PUBLIC-KEY-ALL-ONE-LINE-SPACES-REMOVED-==]
9. Click Add key
10. In Git Extensions, click Clone repository
11. Use the SSH repository link on bitbucket as the Repository to clone ( i.e. git@bitbucket.org:yourname/repo.git)
12. Click Load SSH key
13. Browse to and load the ppk file
14. Click Clone

Also i found that i was having a problem saying that the machine i was looking for might not be the correct one. I found this very helpful and if you are having problems might be useful Using the SSH protocol with Bitbucket and very quickly helped me through that.

I hope this helps